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Literacy and Numeracy Fact sheet

Supporting your child

What is literacy?
Literacy is the ability to read, view, write, design, speak and listen in a way
that allows us to communicate effectively and to make sense of the world.

Why is literacy important?


Literacy is vital to ensuring your child has the best chance to succeed in their
schooling and everyday life. Literacy allows us to make sense of a range of
written, visual and spoken texts including books, newspapers, magazines,
timetables, DVDs, television and radio programs, signs, maps, conversations
and instructions.

Ways to support your child’s literacy development


Research has shown that children’s motivation and achievement improve when their
parents or carers are involved in their education.

There are many everyday things you can do to encourage literacy learning. These include:

• valuing and encouraging your child’s • discussing how texts look different de-
efforts with literacy pending on the purpose and audience
• sharing your knowledge and ex- — for example, text messaging uses
plaining how you use literacy in your different spelling from school projects
everyday life • talking about things that you have
• encouraging your child to read and read or viewed that were amusing,
view a variety of texts such as news- interesting or useful
papers, novels, comics, magazines, • discussing favourite authors, produc-
websites, email, timetables, instruc- ers, directors or illustrators and what
tions and recipes you like about them
• encouraging your child to write and • discussing new and unusual words or
design for a variety of purposes using phrases and exploring these through
print and electronic resources — in- print and electronic dictionaries
vitations, thank you notes, shopping • playing games that develop knowl-
lists, messages, journals and electron- edge and enjoyment of words
ic slide shows
• making use of community resources
• encouraging your child to speak and for information, local and school li-
listen for a variety of purposes — braries, clubs, community groups and
sharing a joke, giving instructions or websites.
asking for information
• sharing a love of language
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Literacy and Numeracy Fact sheet
Supporting your child

What is numeracy?
To be numerate is to confidently and effectively use mathematics to meet
the everyday demands of life.

Why is numeracy important?


Numeracy enables you to develop logical thinking and reasoning strategies in
your daily life. We need numeracy to solve problems and make sense of time,
numbers, patterns and shapes for activities like cooking, reading a map or bill,
reading instructions and even playing sport.

Ways to support your child’s numeracy development


Research has shown that children’s motivation and achievement improve when their parents
or carers are involved in their education.

There are many everyday things you can do to encourage numeracy learning. These include:

• encouraging your child to use mathemat- • using everyday tools like tape measures
ical language — how much, how big, how or kitchen scales and discussing the
small, how many units of measure
• discussing the use of numbers, patterns • asking ‘does that make sense?’, ‘is the
and shapes in your day-to-day life — answer reasonable?’ or ‘what other ways
numbers found on library books, spatial could we do this?’
patterns or shapes in playgrounds, in the • observing and using timetables, calen-
home and architecture dars and clocks for different purposes
• talking about occasions when you are like study periods, holiday planning and
using mathematics in daily jobs and catching public transport
real-life situations — cooking, map read- • helping your child to work out how much
ing, building and playing sport things cost and what change they will
• exploring situations using money such as receive
shopping, budgets and credit cards • playing number games using magazines,
• estimating, measuring and comparing books, newspapers and number plates
lengths and heights, how heavy or light • organising, categorising and counting
things are and how much containers hold collections of things like toys, books,
• talking about different ways to solve a clothing and shoes.
problem

For more information about how you can help your child with literacy and
numeracy visit www.education.qld.gov.au/parents/map or contact your child’s
teacher or school.
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